Heavy storm clouds and slim silver linings: Mariners best Cleveland 6-2

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports Veteran level Pitch Face from the rookieIf you’ll allow me a moment of honesty, I spent more time today looking for birds in the Arboretum and trying to keep up with a surprisingly speedy eight-year-old than I did watching this game. She’s moving soon, and as the days tumble forward it’s become more real that we won’t get to see her grow up in the same way now. So, with apologies to y’aLL and Logan Gilbert, Mariners baseball was not the priority this morning.

All things considered, though, it was an excellent game! Gilbert was the star of the day, shoving his way into the seventh inning for the first time in his fledgling major league career. He generated a ton of…